Description: Standing 5'4", this man is dressed in an above average manner. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. Varis is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. His first spouse was a Shipwright, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1800 gp. Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Amethyst (120 gp). Pink pearl (120 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Zircon (40 gp).

Description: Standing 5'5", this man is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He has shaved his head bald. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Optimist, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He has styled his black hair well, parting it to the left. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Lucan was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC.

Flaws: Selfish, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 12000 sp.

Description: Standing 5'3", this man is wearing a tight brown one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His auburn hair is knotted and matted. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He moved out north to avoid the crime he committed. Being a Navigator kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Religious, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a dagger, but if one is not available he will default to his kukri. His blonde hair is lengthy. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Born to a Servant, his mother struggled to pay the bills. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.